Replication Material for "Locked Out of College: When Admissions Bureaucrats Do and Do Not Discriminate"

## 1 Information

Authors: Jacob R. Brown & Hanno Hilbig	
Date: Nov 18, 2020
Contact email: hhilbig@g.harvard.edu / jrbrown@g.harvard.edu

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# 2 File overview

## 2.1 Data files

Data_Main.csv - This file contains the main data set used for the paper, i.e. the responses collected in our audit study
Data_NamesPretest.csv - Contains results from the pre-test to validate that the names we use have the expected racial connotations
Data_SavedResults.csv - Contains a list of all hypothesis tests considered for the multiple comparisons adjustment that we conduct

## 2.2 .R files

For an overview of all .R files, see the file ListTablesFigures.xlsx, which contains a list of all files and which tables / figures they replicate

## 2.3 Codebooks 

We include codebooks for all data files in the repository. Codebooks are labelled 'Codebook_*.csv', where * is the name of the corresponding data set

# 3 Other information

## 3.1 Anonymization

- We have removed college names and OPE IDs. In addition, we have replaced state codes with uninformative 4-digit codes
- This should make it impossible to link observations in our data set to individual colleges
- We took those steps in accordance with our IRB application, in which we specified that we would not release data that allows for colleges to be identified.

## 3.2 Tables that were not replicated

- We do not include code or data to replicate tables B8-B11
- These tables use data from Chetty et al (2017)
- The Chetty et al data would make it possible to identify individual colleges
- We therefore omit these tables. All other tables and figures can be replicated using this replication file.